Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pride Month is celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan, which was led by trans women of color and Black lesbians. Pride Month is not only a celebration, but a time to reflect on how far we’ve come and how far we have left to go regarding liberation for the LGBTQ+ community and for all. race and society , we asked members of the ACLS community to share resources on LGBTQ+ liberation consisting of existing research, published works, podcasts, and any other mediums that can help in education for reflection and action.[email protected]
ARTICLES
“#ArewaAgainstLGBTQ discourse: a vent for anti-homonationalist ideology in Nigerian twittersphere?” – African Identities , 2021 Written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21, Lecturer, Federal University Oye-Ekiti “Before Trans Studies” – Transgender Studies Quarterly , Volume 7, Number 3, 2022 Written by Cassius Adair F’21, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School; Cameron Awkward-Rich F’20, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Amy Marvin “The Co-optation of LGBT Movements in Mexico and Nicaragua: Modernizing Clientelism?” – Latin American Politics and Society 57 (4), Winter 2015 Co-written by Karen Kampwirth F’17, Robert W. Murphy Professor, Political Science, Knox College “Coming Out and Reaching Out: Linguistic Advocacy on Queer Nigerian Twitter” – Journal of African Cultural Studies September 14, 2020 Written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21, Assistant Professor, English and Literary Studies, Federal University Oye-Ekiti “Exploring an HIV paradox: an ethnography of sexual minority women injectors” – Journal of Lesbian Studies 9(3), 2005 Co-written by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young, Ann Whitney Olin Professor and Chair, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College “Fragments of Shame and Pride” – The Common , September 15, 2020Written by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz
I wonder whether coming out (with its imposing baggage of western histories, logics, and ideals) can be a silent act that needs no words, concepts, or epistemologies.
“Fragments of Shame and Pride”
“How young, queer Nigerians use Twitter to shape identity and fight homophobia” – The Conversation , October 12, 2020 Written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21 , Assistant Professor, English and Literary Studies, Federal University Oye-Ekiti “Ideological Portrayal and Perceptions of Homosexuality in Selected Nollywood Movies” – Quarterly Review of Film and Video , 37(6), 2020 Co-written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21 , Assistant Professor, English and Literary Studies, Federal University Oye-Ekiti “’If Not Now, When?’ Queer and Trans People Reclaim their Power in Lebanon’s Revolution” – Human Rights Watch , May 7, 2020 Created by Rasha Younes with video by Amanda Bailly ; Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz “The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi” – Southern Spaces , February 14, 2020 Conversation between John Howard, Eric Solomon, Allen Tullos, Sophia Leonard “Licensing Citizenship: Anti-Blackness, Identification Documents, and Transgender Studies” – American Quarterly , 71(2), June 2019 Written by Cassius Adair F’21, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School “Male Same-Sex Relations in Socialist China” – The PRC History Review, 3(1), 2018 Written by Wenqing Kang F’12, Associate Professor, History, Cleveland State University “Navigating Homophobia and Re-inventing the Self: A Linguistic Enquiry of Nigerian Digital Pro-homosexuality Discourse” – Gender and Language , 16(1), 2022 Written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21, Lecturer, Federal University Oye-Ekiti “‘Necessarily Hidden Truth(s)’: Documenting Queer Migrant Experience in Rigoberto González’s Crossing Vines ” – MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. , Volume 46, Number 3, Fall 2021 Written by José A. de la Garza Valenzuela F’23, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “New anti-transgender laws will hurt Indigenous peoples’ rights and religious expression” – The Conversation , June 1, 2023 Written by Rosalyn LaPier F’20, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Recommended by Antoinette Burton F’93, Professor of History and Swanlund Endowed Chair, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Organising the Hombre Nuevo Gay : LGBT Politics and the Second Sandinista Revolution” – Bulletin of Latin American Research 33(3), July 2014 Written by Karen Kampwirth F’17, Robert W. Murphy Professor, Political Science, Knox College “Out of Sorts: A Queer Crip in the Archive” – Feminist Review 125, July 2020 Written by Ryan Lee Cartwright F’13, Assistant Professor, American Studies, University of California, Davis “Pasolini and the Queer Revolution in Beirut” – e-flux Journal, Issue #126, April 2022 Written by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz
Framing transgender responses to sex markers on licenses and state identification this way helps align transgender activism, and transgender studies, with a more intersectional and historically grounded critique of state racism.
“Licensing Citizenship: Anti-Blackness, Identification Documents, and Transgender Studies”
“The Podcast and the Police: S Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness” – Southern Spaces , March 24, 2020 Written by Michael Bibler, Associate Professor , Louisiana State University “Policing sexuality? Corpus linguistic perspectives to ‘government’ in homosexuality narratives on Nigerian twitter” – Journal of Gender Studies , 2022 Co-written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21, Lecturer, Federal University Oye-Ekiti “The Politics of Representations in Nigerian Homosexuality-focused Tweets” – Journal of the English Scholars’ Association of Nigeria , 22(1), June 2020 Written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21 , Assistant Professor, English and Literary Studies, Federal University Oye-Ekiti “Protest, Performativity and Transgenderism in Stella Oyedepo’s Rebellion of the Bumpy-Chested” – Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 45(2), September 2019 Written by Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula F’18, Department of Languages/Linguistics/Literary Studies/Theatre Arts, Federal University Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, Nigeria “Queer Arab Films to Watch During Pride Month” – Arab Film & Media Institute, June 2021 Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz “Queer in a legal sense: Negation and negotiation of citizenship in Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service and Arturo Islas’s The Rain God ” – Latino Studies , Volume 17, Issue 2, 2019 Written by José A. de la Garza Valenzuela F’23, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Queer Nigerian Twitter can challenge homophobia and assert sexual agency,” Africa at LSE October 29, 2020 Written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21 , Assistant Professor, English and Literary Studies, Federal University Oye-Ekiti “Reading Incognito: Periodicals, Sapphic Fictions, and Lesbian Communication” – Dix-Neuf , Volume26, Number 1, 2022 Written by Hannah Frydman F’23, Assistant Professor of French Studies, Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, University of Washington “Seeking Pleasure in Peril: Male Same-Sex Relations during the Cultural Revolution” –Positions: Asia Critique , 30(1) 2022 Written by Wenqing Kang F’12, Associate Professor, History, Cleveland State University “Solidarity in the Centerfold: Trans Social Safety Networks in the Adult Magazine” –Feminist Media Histories , Volume 9, Number 1, 2023 Written by Cassius Adair F’21, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School “‘The Transgender Craze Seducing Our [Sons]’; or, All the Trans Guys Are Just Dating Each Other” – Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 9, Number 1, 2022 Written by Cassius Adair F’21, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School, and Aren Aizura “Is Transsexualism Chronic?” – Feminist Studies , Volume 48, Number 2, 2022 Written by Cassius Adair F’21, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School “The trouble with “MSM” and “WSW”: erasure of the sexual-minority person in public health discourse” – American Journal of Public Health 95(7), July 2005 Co-written by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young G’16 , Ann Whitney Olin Professor and Chair, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College “Women Injection Drug Users Who Have Sex with Women Exhibit Increased HIV Infection and Risk Behaviors” – Journal of Drug Issues 30(3), July 1, 2000 Co-written by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young G’16, Ann Whitney Olin Professor and Chair, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College
BOOKS
Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at the Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship (SBL Press, 2011)Edited by Teresa J. Horsnby, Affiliated Professor of Religious Studies at Chicago Theological Seminary and Ken Stone, Professor of Bible, Culture, and Hermeneutics at Chicago Theological Seminary Bodies on the Verge: Queering Pauline Epistles (SBL Press, 2019)Edited by Joseph A. Marchal, Professor of Religious Studies at Ball State University Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences (Harvard University Press, 2011)Written by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young, Ann Whitney Olin Professor and Chair, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College The Breaks (Coffee House Press, 2021)A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia (Duke University Press, 2007) Written by Tom Boellstorff F’06, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut (Temple University Press, 2020)Written by Ghassan Moussawi; Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain (Liverpool University Press, 2023) Written by Dean Allbritton, Associate Professor of Spanish, Colby College The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia (Princeton University Press, 2005)Written by Tom Boellstorff F’06; Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua: Revolution, Dictatorship, and Social Movements (University of Arizona Press, 2022)No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018)Written by Julietta C. Singh F’19, Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond Obsession: Male Same-Sex Relations in China, 1900-1950 (Hong Kong University Press, 2009)Written by Wenqing Kang F’12, Associate Professor, History, Cleveland State University Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity (University of Chicago Press, 2020)Written by Ryan Lee Cartwright F’13, Assistant Professor, American Studies, University of California, Davis Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2023) Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam (Duke University Press, 2021)Written by Evren Savci; Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020)Written by Sa’ed Atshan; Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric (1st edition) (Routledge, 2022)Philip Longo F’22, Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display (University of Chicago Press, 2015)Written by Jennifer Tyburczy F’20, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the UCSB The Straight Mind in Corinth: Queer Readings across 1 Corinthians 11:2–16 (SBL Press, 2017)Written by Gillian Townsley, Chaplain and Religious Education teacher at St Hilda’s Collegiate School and Teaching Fellow at The University of Otago Transgender, Intersex, and Biblical Interpretation (SBL Press, 2016)Written by Teresa J. Horsnby, Affiliated Professor of Religious Studies at Chicago Theological Seminary and Deryn Guest, Senior Lecturer in Biblical Hermeneutics at University of Birmingham Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2018)Written by Gayatri Gopinath; Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz
BOOK CHAPTERS & EXCERPTS
“The Decriminalization and Depathologization of Homosexuality in China” – China in and beyond Headlines (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012) Written by Wenqing Kang F’12, Associate Professor, History, Cleveland State University “Ila’s Double Life” – Excerpt included in Nayak’s book, The Blue Lotus: Myths and Folktales of India (Aleph Book Company, 2018) Written by Meena Arora Nayak F’19, Professor of English, Northern Virginia Community College “Krishna’s Secret” – Excerpt included in Nayak ’s book, The Blue Lotus: Myths and Folktales of India (Aleph Book Company, 2018) Written by Meena Arora Nayak F’19, Professor of English, Northern Virginia Community College
JOURNAL
In order to address significant barriers to the accessibility of trans history, the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) virtually merges disparate archival collections, digital materials, and independent projects with a single search engine. With rich primary source materials and powerful search tools, the DTA offers a generative point of entry into the expansive world of trans history.
Digital Transgender Archive
K. J. Rawson, 2017 ACLS Digital Extension Grantee and 2015 Digital Innovation Fellow
PODCASTS
Making Gay History: The Podcast Recommended by Timothy Stewart-Winter F’08, Associate Professor and Graduate Director, History, Rutgers University—Newark The Queer Arabs Podcast Sounds Gay Transcripts: a podcast from the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
SYLLABI
Introduction to LGBTQ Studies Written by Jennifer Tyburczy F’20, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the UCSB LGBT Politics in Latin America Written by Karen Kampwirth F’17, Robert W. Murphy Professor, Political Science, Knox College Trans Studies Syllabus for Bullshit Times – The Abusable Past , May 18, 2023 Written by Toby Beauchamp, Sawyer K. Kemp, Ava L.J. Kim, Damian Vergara Bracamontes, and Mimi Thi Nguyen; Recommended by Antoinette Burton F’93, Professor of History and Swanlund Endowed Chair, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Queer Flows Written by Jennifer Tyburczy F’20, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the UCSB Queer Theory Written by Jennifer Tyburczy F’20, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the UCSB
VIDEOS
WEBSITES
